Jennifer McMahon Quotes

People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.

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• Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

  

  Carl Safina
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  • Believe

• I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.

  

  RaeLynn
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  • Want
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• On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

  

  Jack Keane
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  • Free
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• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
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  • Finding

• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

  

  Halston Sage
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• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.

  

  Kate Williams
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• Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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  • Remember
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• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?' Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual? But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended.

  

  Kerry Washington
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• What people don't realize is that the initial sales of an album isn't where the bulk of your returns come from. It happens over time, sitting in the catalog, picking up commercials, getting included on packages here and there - there's years and years of pipeline money that goes on. That's where real money comes from - building that body of work.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
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• We know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical weapons - he has for nearly 20 years as we know only so well from his use of them against his own people and the Iranians. He has deadly stockpiles of biological weapons.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • People
  • Weapons
  • Chemicals

• I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
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  • Bits
  • Mentality

• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

  Dan Gable
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• People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
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